ec;orio uass Nsw Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community THE JEWISH NEWS • 22 TEVET 5753/JANUARY 15, 1993 Tragedy Strikes Emigres (\, The Jewish communities of Detroit and Orlando cooperate to assist the survivors of a fatal accident. RUTH LITTMAN STAFF WRITER dam Shpolyansky, 4, wears a Bart Simpson T-shirt as he quietly plays on the couch in his Southfield home. His eyes are brown and wide open. They focus downward when he hears his grandmother, Reva Shpolyansky, crying in the adjoining room. The young boy's winter vacation turned into a tragedy last week when his mother, sister, and two friends were killed in an accident on Florida Highway 27. Semyon and Antik Kushelman, immigrants well-known for help- ing other Russians adjust to a new way of life in America, died when the driver of the van they were traveling in lost control. The van overturned several times and all six passengers were thrown from the vehicle. The Kushelmans, who immi- grated to Detroit in 1979, were traveling with the Shpolyanskys, a family of four who settled three years ago in the United States. Reva Shpolyansky survived last reacting to such a tragedy will tip the balance of meanness that seems to pervade our world today," said Diane Brown of the JFS in Orlando. Sandra Hyman, director of Detroit's JFS's Resettlement Service, contacted Mrs. Brown, who coordinates a similar program in Orlando. Mrs. Brown immedi- ately called Temple Israel in Sebring, Fla., where the accident occurred. Though Mrs. Brown hoped to week's accident. Her daughter, Anna, and 6-year-old grand- daughter, Elina, died instantly. Adam was treated at Arnold Palmer Women's and Children's Hospital in Or- lando, where he was airlifted after the accident in Sebring, Fla. He was discharged Sunday in stable condition and has returned home, where his young neighborhood friends visit with Semyon and Antik Ku shelman and two others were killed. their parents. The staff at the locate a translator for Reva, she Jewish Family Service in Detroit worried the feat would prove near- heard about the accident last ly impossible. Sebring is a small Wednesday and worked with the vacation town with an even small- JFS in Orlando to assist the sur- er Jewish population. vivors, who barely speak English. But Leo Rosenbaum, a retiree "If there exist in this world there, heard about the accident. scales of justice, perhaps the Though his Russian is rusty, he mitzvot performed and the kind- volunteered to help. Mr.Rosen- ness shared by so many strangers ACCI DENT page 22 oside En Garde! 11 , Fencing Academy of Michigan seeks a new home base Page 45 - Working Women Orthodox women balance careers and religion. Page 51 CAMP GUIDE Getting ready for Summer 1993. Page 57 CLOSE-OP "Involvement in the peace process takes considerable energy," says former national security adviser William Quandt. "It is difficult, controversial and time consuming. The single biggest decision they have to make is deciding where on their list of priorities the Mideast peace process fits. That decision will deter- mine what signals they send out in the opening days of the administra- tion." Some hints of how the Clinton team is leaning came at two meetings last week between leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and AIPAC, and the top members of the Clinton foreign policy team. Into The Fray Stories on page 24 PROFILE Letters Of Liberation A simple keyboard helps JARC resident communicate. Page 100 Contents on page 5